418 PHYTOPHAGA. 



black; scutellum piceous; thorax one and a half times broader than long; elytra scarcely visibly 

 punctured. 

 Length 4 lines. 



Hob. Mexico, Cerro de Plumas {Hoge). 



The single specimen obtained is again closely allied to the two preceding species, but 

 differs so totally in the shape of the thorax that I am obliged to separate it ; the latter 

 is less than twice as broad as long, and the sides are nearly perfectly straight, while 

 the anterior angles are like those of (E. infirma ; the legs are coloured like those of 

 (E. inconspicua, from which it differs again in the totally different shape of the thorax 

 and the absence of anterior teeth. The species must be considered as an intermediate 

 form, but in the absence of other specimens a definite conclusion cannot be formed as 

 to its specific distinction. 



28. CEdionychis sublineata. (Tab. XXIV. fig. 7.) 



Testaceous ; joints 6-8 of the antennae fuscous ; elytra finely punctured, a narrow, short, and straight longitu- 

 dinal stripe at the middle of the base, a slightly curved band from the shoulder to near the apex, and the 

 suture, dark fulvous. 



Length 2-3 lines. 



Hab. Mexico, Cordova, Playa Vicente (SalU), Jalapa {Hoge) ; Beitish Hondueas, 

 Belize, E. Hondo (Blancaneaux) ; Guatemala, San Geronimo, Panzos [Champion) ; 

 Nicaeagua, Chontales {Belt, Janson) ; Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui {Champion). 



Closely allied to (E. longicollis, but differing in the want of the elytral posterior 

 discoidal band and in the straight, not oblique, short basal stripe ; the longitudinal 

 lateral band is much further removed from the lateral margin than in (E. oculata ; 

 lastly, the antennae in the present species have the intermediate joints dark, which is 

 especially to be noticed in specimens from British Honduras. The name of the species is 

 a MS. one given to it by Chevrolat. Thirty-five specimens are before me. 



29. (Edionychis oculata? (Tab. XXIV. fig. 6.) 



Galleruca oculata, Fabr. Syst. Eleuth. i. p. 496 1 . 

 Haltica oculata, Illig. Mag. vi. 1807, p. 100 2 . 

 Haltica humeralis, var. 6, Illig. Mag. vi. p. 101 3 . 



Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui, Bugaba, Caldera {Champion). — South Ameeica 123 . 



I refer provisionally the Central American specimens to the species of Fabricius and 

 Illiger, as they agree very nearly with a specimen kindly lent me for examination by 

 the Berlin Museum, and named, I believe, by Illiger himself. I have not at the present 

 moment this specimen before me, but a figure of it taken by myself seems to differ in 

 regard to the elytral markings in having an elongate ring-like brown mark placed at the 

 posterior half of each elytron. In the specimens from the State of Panama the design 

 of the elytra consists of a short oblique ferrugineous stripe at the middle of the base 



